binding nubs on jazz block&binding necks

[ampang]

One thing that I have found no info about ...

Looking at 70's jazz basses I have seen sometimes that the necks have the binding covering the frets ends. If you look at this picture in the page (search in page for Binding Nubs) :

www.fretnotguitarrepair.com/frets.htm

you can see what I mean (in the pic there is a Les Paul, but the concept applies to fender jazzes too).

Sometimes the frets are placed over the binding and have the frets end filed as happens in unbound necks. I've seen that all the time in modern japan reissues, for example.

I wonder if the original in the seventies had the binding nubs covering fret ends (and so the ones that do not have it have been refretted or simply filed away) or if both ways of binding a neck in the factory were actually used, maybe in different periods..

I know that I'm splitting hairs here..but maybe fender experts have some info about it.

Thnx

[ilan]

< the pic you linked

My '77 Jazz has binding nubs. Lack of nubs indicates a refret.